Chilling 'Dying For Sunlight' First Video Trailer Released

On June 12, 2014, Lucas Guilkey, organizer and award-winning documentary film maker, launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign for the film “Dying for Sunlight: The Story of the California Prisoner Hunger Strikes,” simultaneously releasing the chilling, to say the least, first trailer.

This documentary, about the prisoner-led human rights movement against indefinite solitary confinement, is providing an opportunity for ordinary people to participate in the making of the film, exposing one of the top most hidden human rights violation within the United States: extreme prison abuse.

Lucas has been creating powerful short videos about the CA Prisoner Hunger Strike Human Rights Movement over the past year, and now plans to tell the story in a more full and comprehensive manner, focusing on those who know it best: family members of the hunger strikers and those who’ve spent time in the SHU.